Current Research Projects
This project aims to develop research-based design principals for creating Augmented Reality Smart Note (ARSN), a product that can be customized, depending on the subject matter, to combine analog and digital environments in order to create an individualized learning environment. Regardless of whether the subject is mathematics, science, or a foreign language, for example, ARSN would convert analog forms such as text, a photo, diagram, or video in any media to a digital form using Bluetooth technology, which does not require internet connectivity.
This project, funded by the National Science Foundation Partnerships for International Research and Education, brings together teachers, researchers, and educational leaders from the United States and Finland to investigate critical issues in global science education. CESE developed high school chemistry and physical science units implemented in both countries, and examined levels of student engagement and learning resulting from 3-Dimensional Project-Based science instruction.
A collaboration between CREATE, Leibniz-Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) in Germany, and Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
The ELeVATE (Exploring Learning in Various Approaches to Teaching Energy) project is a six-year, $1.8 million research project (NSF) that investigates the impact of different approaches to introductory energy instruction in middle school. Researchers have investigated how students build ideas about energy within the context of the systems-transfer approach, with positive results.
Recent News
A group of twelve graduate students and post-docs from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel participated in an exchange program hosted by CREATE for STEM Institute and Michigan State…
CREATE for STEM was delighted to host a multi-day conference in September 2019 that brought together the Crafting Engagement for Science Environments projects' principal investigators…
CREATE director Joe Krajcik visited Southern Africa for three weeks in July 2019 in order to work with both the University of Pretoria's new Future Africa campus colleagues and culminating…
Partners
Liebniz IPN
The Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) was founded in 1966, with a mission to develop and promote science education through research.
Weizmann Institute
The Weizmann Institute of Science is one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary basic research institutions in the natural and exact sciences.
University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki's mission is to produce research-based knowledge for the benefit of the whole world.
Technion
A world top-ten science and technology university
CREATE for STEM
Michigan State University's hub for STEM education research
Beijing Normal University
A Chinese research-intensive university in the sciences and humanities, teacher education and educational science.
